Nearest Communities to Boundary,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Boundary, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Boundary:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals were in the next county to the east. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the south.
When doing our research, we make it a practice to expand our search by looking in neighboring counties in addition to the county in which they lived: their home county contained property and probate records; the county to the east contained birth and death records; the county to the south contained their burial records. If we hadn't checked the neighboring counties, we would have missed many valuable sources of information.
Keep in mind that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance starting from Boundary.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Boundary is located in Whatcom County.
The following 3 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Whatcom County: Okanogan, San Juan & Skagit.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 18 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Boundary. Of these communities, 1 are located in counties other than Whatcom County.
We usually exclude communities where we still need to verify their location,<2> but for the purpose of this page, we have included the unverified ('unver') and historic ('hist') communities.
After starting with the home county for Boundary (which is Whatcom County), we list the counties in alphabetical order and for each of those counties, the closest communities are listed in order of their distance from Boundary
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Whatcom County (where Boundary resides)
- County Website: www.co.whatcom.wa.us/
- County Seat for Whatcom: Bellingham
- Note: The western boundary of the county is on Pudget Sound and the Canadian Province of British Columbia lies to the north
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Washington
- Whatcom County
- From Family Search:
- State of Washington
- Whatcom County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Washington
- Whatcom County
- Nearest Communities to Boundary ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Boundary.
- Glacier
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glacier
- Glacier is located in Whatcom County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Glacier <3>
- Warnick
(18 miles [29 km] to the west) - Maple Falls
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maple Falls
- Maple Falls is located in Whatcom County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Maple Falls <3>
- Kendall
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the west) - Peaceful Valley
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Peaceful Valley have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peaceful Valley
- Peaceful Valley is located in Whatcom County
- Balford
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the west) - Columbia
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the west) - Limestone Junction
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Limestone Junction have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Limestone Junction
- Limestone Junction is located in Whatcom County
- Nooksack Salmon Hatchery
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Nooksack Salmon Hatchery have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nooksack Salmon Hatchery
- Nooksack Salmon Hatchery is located in Whatcom County
- Kulshan
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest) - Newhalem
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast) - Welcome
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest) - Continue List (5 more) ...
- Diablo
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast) - Sumas
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sumas
- Sumas is located in Whatcom County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,629 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Sumas <3>
- Ruby ‑ Historic
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast) - Deming
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deming
- Deming is located in Whatcom County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Deming <3>
- Van Zandt
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
- Diablo
- Skagit County
- County Website: www.skagitcounty.net/
- County Seat for Skagit: Mount Vernon
- Note: The western boundary of the county is on Pudget Sound
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Washington
- Skagit County
- From Family Search:
- State of Washington
- Skagit County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Washington
- Skagit County
- Nearest Communities to Boundary ...
Footnotes ...
| <1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Boundary) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Boundary. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 48.9985, Longitude: -121.6054 In this case, the coordinates for Boundary have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <2> | Our data comes from many sources and some sources are more dependable than others. When we add communities to our Gazetteer, we try to verify that we have the correct location for the community. We mark a community as 'Unverified' when we aren't confident about our data and want to do further checking. We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Since our Gazetteer contains over 100,000 communities, verifying everything is going to take time. If you find an error or can help us to improve our accuracy, please let us know. |
| <3> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <4> | The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required. |
| <5> | An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace. |